Data Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 118 136
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 30 35 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.08% 1.43% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.47% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 21 32 53
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,850 £38,442
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,306 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +18.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £88,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £92,500 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.08% +24.01%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,402 2,375 4,429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.16% 97.18% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 692 1,685 2,325
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +32 22 £62,500 -21.88% 9
Huddersfield - 7 £58,648 -
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 21 January 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (76.67%) Analytics
2 21 (70.00%) Azure
3 20 (66.67%) SQL
3 20 (66.67%) Python
4 17 (56.67%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
4 17 (56.67%) Data Engineering
5 16 (53.33%) Agile
6 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 15 (50.00%) ETL
6 15 (50.00%) AWS
7 13 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
8 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
9 10 (33.33%) Data Strategy
9 10 (33.33%) Data Quality
9 10 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
10 9 (30.00%) Data Analytics
10 9 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
11 8 (26.67%) Data Architecture
11 8 (26.67%) Degree
12 7 (23.33%) Scrum
12 7 (23.33%) DevOps
12 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
12 7 (23.33%) GCP

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (23.33%) GCP
6 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) dbt
6 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 5 (16.67%) Serverless
8 4 (13.33%) Azure Functions
8 4 (13.33%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (6.67%) PaaS
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 6 (20.00%) Metadata
3 6 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
3 6 (20.00%) Power BI
3 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.67%) Tableau
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.33%) Looker
7 1 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Analytics
2 17 (56.67%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (56.67%) Data Engineering
3 16 (53.33%) Agile
4 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 15 (50.00%) ETL
5 13 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (33.33%) Data Strategy
8 9 (30.00%) Data Analytics
9 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
9 8 (26.67%) Data Architecture
10 7 (23.33%) DevOps
10 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
10 7 (23.33%) Scrum
11 6 (20.00%) Data Integration
11 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (16.67%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
1 20 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) R
3 4 (13.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Databricks
3 5 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) GoldenSource